Georg Edmund Lucas

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Georg Edmund Lucas (born June 1, 1853 in Dresden ; † May 28, 1931 in Klotzsche ) was a German road, bridge and railway engineer and rector of the Dresden University of Technology .

Life

Villa Selliner Strasse, built for Georg Edmund Lucas between 1911 and 1912

Lucas was born in Dresden in 1853 as the son of the railway conductor Gustav Her (r) mann Lucas and Rosalie Agnes, née Wiedemann. Lucas studied construction at the Dresden Polytechnic from 1869 to 1873 and graduated from the school's engineering department with a commendation. After completing his studies, he worked for the Leipzig-Dresden Railway Company, worked as a construction officer for the Royal Saxon State Railways and opened his own office for bridge construction. From November 1878 he was a member of the Dresden Masonic lodge "To the bronze pillars". In 1880 he married Hedwig Clara Hansel.

From 1893 to 1896 Lucas was inspector for bridge testing at the Royal Saxon State Railways and worked from 1899 to 1890 as a board member of the bridge construction office of the State Railways. In 1900, Lucas accepted a call to the Dresden University of Technology, where he had already studied. In July 1900, he took over the professorship for road, rail and tunnel construction, including earthworks and routing, as the successor to the unexpectedly deceased building councilor Paul Schmidt (1851–1899). Kurt Beyer was one of his students at the time . Lucas was head of the civil engineering department in the academic year 1902/03 and 1910/11 and headed the university as rector in 1911/12, with Georg Helm holding the position of vice-rector . In the following year he was Vice-Rector under the new Rector Ernst von Meyer . Lucas retired in 1924 and died in Klotzsche in 1931.

Lucas lived in the Villa Melanchthonstrasse 8 (today Selliner Strasse 8) in Klotzsche, which he had built from 1911 to 1912. He has been honored many times for his services to road, rail and tunnel construction, he carried the honorary title of Privy Councilor , was an honorary doctor of technical science from the early 1920s and received, among other things, the Saxon Order of Merit (Knight's Cross, 1st class ), the Albrechts Order (Knight's Cross 1st Class), the Schwarzburg Cross of Honor (2nd Class) and the House Order of the White Falcon (Commander).

Publications

  • The tunnel. Part 1. The draft of the tunnel structure. Ernst & Son , Berlin 1920
  • The tunnel. Part 2. Construction process in the construction of the tunnels: maintenance and restoration work. Ernst & Son, Berlin 1926

literature

  • Lucas, Georg (Edmund) . In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003 . Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. by Reiner Pommerin. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 581.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of students from the Technical Educational Institute (TBA) / Polytechnic School (PS) / Polytechnikum Dresden (PT) for the period (1828–) 1836–1887 -L- . tu-dresden.de, accessed on April 25, 2020.
  2. ^ Karl-Dieter Holz: Architects, civil engineers and construction officials as members of Dresden Masonic lodges . In: State palaces, castles and gardens of Saxony: Yearbook 2007/08 . Volume 15. Sandstein, Dresden 2008, p. 202.
  3. ↑ Report on the Royal. Saxon. Technical University of Dresden for the academic year 1899/1900 . Teubner , Dresden 1900, p. 6.
  4. ^ Reiner Pommerin: History of the TU Dresden 1828–2003 . Böhlau Verlag , Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2003, p. 113.
  5. ^ Karl-Eugen Kurrer : Kurt Beyer's contribution to structural analysis . In: 29th Dresden Bridge Construction Symposium. Planning, construction, repair and upgrading of bridges. 11./12. March 2019 . addprint, Dresden 2019, p. 103 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Rector and Senate (ed.): Report on the Royal. Saxon. Technical University of Dresden for the academic year 1910/11 . Wilhelm and Bertha v. Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1911, p. 3.
  7. ↑ First mention of the honorary doctorate in the address book for Dresden and suburbs . Edition 1922/1923. Dr. Güntzschen Foundation, Dresden 1923, p. 551.
  8. ^ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. XX. Volume, No. 33, from April 28, 1900, p. 197
  9. ↑ Information according to the address book for Dresden and suburbs . Dr. Güntzschen Foundation, Dresden 1921, p. 481.
personal data
SURNAME Lucas, Georg Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1931
Place of death Klotzsche